Computing for ATLAS in Switzerland has two Tier-3 sites with several years of experience, owned by Universities of Berne and Geneva. They have been used for ATLAS Monte Carlo production, centrally ...controlled via the NorduGrid, since 2005. The Tier-3 sites are under continuous development. In case of Geneva the proximity of CERN leads to additional use cases, related to commissioning of the experiment, which require processing of the latest ATLAS data using the latest software under development, normally not distributed to grid sites. The Swiss Tier-2 at the CSCS centre has a recent and powerful cluster, serving three LHC experiments, including ATLAS. The system features two implementations of the grid middleware, NorduGrid ARC and the LCG gLite, which operate simultaneously on the same resources. In this article we present our implementation choices and our experience. We will discuss the requirements of our users and how we meet them. We will present the status of our work and our plans for the ATLAS data taking period in 2009-2010.
The production cross-section of J/ψ pairs is measured using a data sample of pp collisions collected by the LHCb experiment at a centre-of-mass energy of s√=13TeV, corresponding to an integrated ...luminosity of 279±11pb−1. The measurement is performed for J/ψ mesons with a transverse momentum of less than 10GeV/c in the rapidity range 2.0<y<4.5. The production cross-section is measured to be 13.5±0.9±0.8nb. The first uncertainty is statistical, and the second is systematic. The differential cross-sections as functions of several kinematic variables of the J/ψ pair are measured and compared to theoretical predictions.
Search for the B0s→η′φ decay Aaij, R.; Beaucourt, L.; Chefdeville, M. ...
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A search for the charmless B0s→η′ϕ decay is performed using pp collision data collected by the LHCb experiment at centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of ...3 fb−1. No signal is observed and upper limits on the B0s→η′ϕ branching fraction are set to 0.82×10−6 at 90% and 1.01×10−6 at 95% confidence level.
An amplitude analysis of the decay Λ0b→D0pπ− is performed in the part of the phase space containing resonances in the D0p channel. The study is based on a data sample corresponding to an integrated ...luminosity of 3.0 fb−1 of pp collisions recorded by the LHCb experiment. The spectrum of excited Λ+c states that decay into D0p is studied. The masses, widths and quantum numbers of the Λc(2880)+ and Λc(2940)+ resonances are measured. The constraints on the spin and parity for the Λc(2940)+ state are obtained for the first time. A near-threshold enhancement in the D0p amplitude is investigated and found to be consistent with a new resonance, denoted the Λc(2860)+, of spin 3/2 and positive parity.
The suppressed decay Λ0b→pπ−μ+μ−, excluding the J/ψ and ψ(2S)→μ+μ− resonances, is observed for the first time with a significance of 5.5 standard deviations. The analysis is performed with ...proton-proton collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3fb−1 collected with the LHCb experiment. The Λ0b→pπ−μ+μ− branching fraction is measured relative to the Λ0b→J/ψ(→μ+μ−)pπ− branching fraction givingB(Λ0b→pπ−μ+μ−)B(Λ0b→J/ψ(→μ+μ−)pπ−)=0.044±0.012±0.007,where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second is systematic. This is the first observation of a b→d transition in a baryonic decay.
Using a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3fb−1, collected by the LHCb experiment in pp collisions at centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV, the effective lifetime in the ...B0s→J/ψη decay mode, τeff, is measured to be τeff=1.479±0.034 (stat)±0.011 (syst) ps. Assuming CP conservation, τeff corresponds to the lifetime of the light B0s mass eigenstate. This is the first measurement of the effective lifetime in this decay mode.
Measurements of the differential branching fraction and angular moments of the decay B0→K+π−μ+μ− in the K∗0,2(1430)0 in the K+π− invariant mass range 1330<m(K+π−)<1530 MeV/c2 are presented. ...Proton-proton collision data are used, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3 fb−1 collected by the LHCb experiment. Differential branching fraction measurements are reported in five bins of the invariant mass squared of the dimuon system, q2, between 0.1 and 8.0 GeV2/c4. For the first time, an angular analysis sensitive to the S-, P- and D-wave contributions of this rare decay is performed. The set of 40 normalised angular moments describing the decay is presented for the q2 range 1.1--6.0 GeV2/c4.
A measurement of the cross-section for W→eν production in pp collisions is presented using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 2fb−1 collected by the LHCb experiment at a centre-of-mass ...energy of s√=8TeV. The electrons are required to have more than 20GeV of transverse momentum and to lie between 2.00 and 4.25 in pseudorapidity. The inclusive W production cross-sections, where the W decays to eν, are measured to be \sigma_{W^{+} \to e^{+}\nu_{e}}&=1124.4\pm 2.1\pm 21.5\pm 11.2\pm 13.0\,\mathrm{pb}, \sigma_{W^{-} \to e^{-}\bar{\nu}_{e}}&=\,\,\,809.0\pm 1.9\pm 18.1\pm\,\,\,7.0\pm \phantom{0}9.4\,\mathrm{pb}, where the first uncertainties are statistical, the second are systematic, the third are due to the knowledge of the LHC beam energy and the fourth are due to the luminosity determination. Differential cross-sections as a function of the electron pseudorapidity are measured. The W+/W− cross-section ratio and production charge asymmetry are also reported. Results are compared with theoretical predictions at next-to-next-to-leading order in perturbative quantum chromodynamics. Finally, in a precise test of lepton universality, the ratio of W boson branching fractions is determined to be \mathcal{B}(W \to e\nu)/\mathcal{B}(W \to \mu\nu)=1.020\pm 0.002\pm 0.019, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second is systematic.
A model-dependent amplitude analysis of the decay B0→D(K0Sπ+π−)K∗0 is performed using proton-proton collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3.0fb−1, recorded at s√=7 and 8TeV by ...the LHCb experiment. The CP violation observables x± and y±, sensitive to the CKM angle γ, are measured to bex−=−0.15±0.14±0.03±0.01,y−=0.25±0.15±0.06±0.01,x+=0.05±0.24±0.04±0.01,y+=−0.65+0.24−0.23±0.08±0.01,where the first uncertainties are statistical, the second systematic and the third arise from the uncertainty on the D→K0Sπ+π− amplitude model. These are the most precise measurements of these observables. They correspond to γ=(80+21−22)∘ and rB0=0.39±0.13, where rB0 is the magnitude of the ratio of the suppressed and favoured B0→DK+π− decay amplitudes, in a Kπ mass region of ±50MeV around the K∗(892)0 mass and for an absolute value of the cosine of the K∗0 decay angle larger than 0.4.
A time-dependent angular analysis of B0s→ψ(2S)ϕ decays is performed using data recorded by the LHCb experiment. The data set corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 3.0\invfb collected during Run ...1 of the LHC. The CP-violating phase and decay-width difference of the B0s system are measured to be ϕs=0.23+0.29−0.28±0.02 rad and ΔΓs=0.066+0.041−0.044±0.007 ps−1, respectively, where the first uncertainty is statistical and the second systematic. This is the first time that ϕs and ΔΓs have been measured in a decay containing the ψ(2S) resonance.